what is difference between 404 and soft 404 error

[varunindia88]

Any body here suggest me what is difference between 404 and soft 404 error in SEO?

[RH-Calvin]

Soft 404 errors. Usually, when someone requests a page that doesn't exist, a server will return a 404 (not found) error. This HTTP response code clearly tells both browsers and search engines that the page doesn't exist. As a result, the content of the page (if any) won't be crawled or indexed by search engines.

[fishpawnbroker]

The error 404 "page not found" means that the page you are finding server can't find he page.
Soft 404 means page not found and user will move to either home page or custom page.

[edwina]

Nice information.